The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, procured liquor, and gave it to the soldiers to drink.
Who acts: Dīghāvu · What happens: enter, procure, give, drink · To what, where: Benāres, liquor, soldiers
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dīghāvu), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 procured | punct |
| 7 | procured | procure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 8 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 procured | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 soldiers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldiers | det |
| 15 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 drink | mark |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gave | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Dīghāvu Prince | Benāres | thereupon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme benāres=Destination | |||
| 2 | procure | past | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | liquor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | liquor | the soldiers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to soldier=Recipient | |||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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